Indonesia and Singapore will begin the joint development of a floating solar farm in Batam next year with a goal of generating around 2 GW of electricity that will be transported to Singapore via undersea cables.
If the timeline proceed on schedule, Batam will be the first location in Indonesia to have a major commercial photovoltaic (PV) plant operating on a large scale.
Indonesia currently has only a handful of PV plants, with each less than 50 MW of capacity. A PV plant with a capacity of about 150 MW in West Java is predicted to start operations only in October this year.
